Garment fastener



Feb. 25, 1930. F. K. ALSTRAND v GARMENT FASTENER Filed Sept, 10, 1928 gwwewcoz I if Patented Feb. 25,1930

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PATENT ore-ice FELIXK. ALSTRAND, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK GARMENT rAs'rnNEn Application filed se'ptember 10, 1928 .v Serial No. 305,118.

I This invention relates to garment fasteners, and particularly the class in which a flexibleband isattached to a garment and provided with a'tongue adapted to be passed fithrough a button hole of a corresponding part of the latter. I

The main advantage of my invention regarment-,.whereby to retain the sides'in' the feature of having a fastener of the natureindicated permanently secured to the garment to which it is applied. Another advantageis to attach sucha fastener to a garment-by sewing,cementing, or by anyt'such means employed to attach one fabric to another. a l

A furtheradvantage is to provide a garment fastener which need not be removed for laundering of the garment, but which will bear hard 'usuage-such as passing through a wring-er.

. Still another advantage is to make a fastener'of this nature withoutemploying any solid metal bodies, but preferably fabrics and the like, andproducingthe same in a very simpleandinexpensive form.

Other-advantages and the various novel and usefulfeatures of my invention will appear hereinafter as this specification-proceeds. In the accompanying drawing forming part hereof,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a garment fastener made according to my invention and embodying the same in a preferred form, and not attached to any garment. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same member arranged to reveal the structure. I Fig. 3 is a fragmentary View of a garment member having an embodiment of my invention applied thereto.

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Fig. 5 is a fragmentary View of the garment of Fig. 3 withanother coresponding part of the same garment engaged and retained by "the fastener already mentioned.

Fig. 6 is vertical section of the garment parts of Fig. 5 throughthe button hole to reveal the position of the fastener in relation to the garment members.

Fig. 7 is a general view of one method of ready for use.

Fig. 4 is an obverse View of the parts shown producing my new garment fasteners in quantities.

Throughout the views, the same reference numerals indicate the same or duplicate parts.

In the practice of my invention, a strip of stifi paper, card or other stiffening material indicated at 21 is wound about with a fabric or flexible material noted at 19, and may be cemented to the stiffener so as to form a rather firm body therewith. Beneath said body thus I formed an end of the fabric or wrapper is dropped to hang free as indicated at 20, the latter beingpreferably off center, or nearer to the front edge than the rear.

If then a part of the structure thus produced is cut off along a line indicated at 2223, an unfinished button or fastener will be formed, as generally indicated at 24, consisting of a head generally indicated at 25' and a shank indicated at 26. The corners of the headmay be rounded or cut as at 15, 16, 17 and 18, and the article is substantially However, as seen more in detail in Fig. 2, the fastener has the inner fold 8 disposed immediately beneath the stiffener piece 4, and passing to the end of the same at 3,is folded over the same at 1 whence it turns down again at 2 and under again at 6. The folded fabric or strip is not continued the entire length of the lower surface of the first or inner fold 8, but at-a point well toward one end of the head 25, the fabric is continued downward as a free hand or shank 5 terminating at 9, and leaving a short space 7 on theunderside of the main body or head, as it may be termed.

When applying this fastener to a garment, the end 9 of shank 5 is preferably first passed through the button hole 10 and sewed or otherwise fastened to the upper band 11 of the garment member 12. Of course, it would not be necessary for the garment to have a button hole in this position, for the end 9 could be sewed directly to the front of the band 11, and this point appears 'so obvious as to seem superfluous to illustrate. The main portion'of the fastener shank 5 will then projectfrom the front of the garment and hold the head 1 a slight distance in front of the same, the long end indicated by 26- being pendent downward. It is then a very simple matter to pass the lower end 26 through the button hole 27 of the second garment member 14 so that thetongue hangs outside the upper band 13 of said member. The end 26 being thus relatively long, will tend by gravity to hang in proper position so as to keep the upper short endB vertical, and by their co-operation, the tongue as a whole will readily'serve to retain the second garment member in close association with the first member. If a'collar is also used, the head 25 is passed through its proper'front button holes in the same manner as it was passed through hole'27, whereafter a tie or cravat, or such addition of common practice will not only hide the head, but actually hold it flat and tend to assist the same in retaining all parts in assembled relation. 7

Obviously, the stiffener may be made of paper, rubber, or some suitable compound, or it may be made by simply folding the band fabric or strip a suflicient number of times to become stiff, and the whole impregnatedwith some cementing or vulcanizing compound.

while for cuffs, the shank 5 would serve as a I connector having a head on each end. This amounts merely to doubling the heads and is 7 also obvious.

Having now described my invention, I claim l g l. A garment fastener or button including a relatively flexible shank terminating in a relatively stiffer head having an end projection disposed above the junction between said shank and said head and extending also in the opposite direction to provide another end upon said head below said junction, said head and said shank being of substantially the same uniform width throughout.

2. A garment fastener or button including a pair of relatively stiff heads, and a relatively flexible shank attached to both of said. heads intermediate their extremities in order to serve as a connector between the heads, said heads and shank being of the same general width, there being also a pair of garment members in one of which is a button hole which may be superposed over the other garrelation, and a flexible and relatively broad and fiat connecting shank secured-,to said length of a button hole in a portion of said garment.

5. A'garment fastener including a strip of material uniform in width throughout its length and having an end by which to attach said fastener to a garment, a head arranged to pass through a button hole in said garment and a connecting shank extending from said end to a point under said head intermediate the ends thereof.

width approximately corresponding with the V 6. The method of manufacturing garment fasteners which consists in wrapping a relatively stiff core with a fabric so as to completely envelopv said core and leave a length of fabric extending freely from beneath'said wrapped core intermediate the edges thereof, I

relatively stiff head of elongated form, and a relatively flat and flexible band attached to the underside of said'head intermediate the ends thereof and serving as a shank therefor, the end of said shank being adapted to be at tached' to agarment in order to retain por-- tions of said garment in assembled relation when said head is passed throughta button 7 hole in one portion of said garment.

FELIX K. ALSTRAND.

' ment member, and said fastener being arranged with its shank passing through said button hole in the first member and having one of its heads secured to the other garment member.

3. A garment fastener including arelatively substantial head adapted to be passed through a buttonhole in a garment member overlying a second garment member in order to retain both of sald members in assembled 

